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If they go under and people lose money that they put up, another gold star for the SEC........exempt credit has no business being in the hands of amateurs.

LOL T-Rex ....wasn't commenting on the abililty or inability to get trades off....just on more "normalcy" in the markets......As far as I know....the last time 10% margin was available to stock traders was in the 20's.........I'm not saying that caused that crash.....just exacerbated it.......

Wow...5 years and he's calling it quits! Takes 5 years to become a MD, lawyer, pharmacist, etc.....There are still too many novices at the prop firms, folks with a few thousand bucks (or less) and no real knowledge of the consequences of their actions controling hundreds of thousands or...

having spent some time down there (NYSE) the truth is somewhere in the middle....It i pretty hard for a specialist to giggle around a MO or GE.......there is always someone on both sides.......as far as "stabilizing"....come on! If the real "owners" of these shares.....funds....the company...

The 2 most important things I need to know before trading is what day it is, holidays, earnings reports, economic reports, etc.......and what time it is......what markets are trading around the globe....who has the ball..........

Buy Rosh worked like a charm this year......should we sell Yom?

I tend to glimpse at the size when I go in.....and the fills come back "just about right" in my estimation of where I am in the deck.

mr minty- trade my own money....I have several freinds at shoney and at their behest interviewed there....but saw no advantage (for me personally). the biggest stumbling block was the "deal". To make 50 or 60% I had to wait 6 months to get the bulk of that....as they only pay you 20% of the...

Don't know if this has changed but they used to have identifiers with the broker (obviously) and which office the order came out of (applies to DOT only)

My own personal experience with successful adding to positions is to add in a true pyramid fashion.....the base position being the largest....and adding smaller size as the trade moves in my favor....eg 7 + 4 +2 +1, raising the stop so as NEVER to be negative on the origional position and...

MR Minty- Did you start in one of their offices? Were you part of the LA or Chicago group?

"know thyself"....Socrates not knowing is the stumbling block in trading for most people. if you have any insecurities or self deceptions these will come back to haunt you in a big way. In concept "trading" is the easiest thing in the world to do: buy em as they are going up and sell em...

volume probably right...got filled on all limits today no matter direction afterward!

Do you have the money to pay for that stock sonny?

they really are supposed to match the better bid or offer....otherwise it results in a trade thru which is illegal (not that it stops anyone)......on the other hand some brokers routinely route to the regionals cause they pay for order flow....then YOU really get ****ed....say the best bid is...

why route to an exchange that does 10million shares a day over one that does 1billion.....?

which year? Guys who made 10Mill in 1999 might have lost 2 mill in 2002.......Top grinders might have made 1mill both years.

Wait till the reality of a lame duck president sets in!

OnTheEdge Senior Member Registered: Aug 2003 Posts: 272 09-25-03 06:47 PM Thanks for the information. I've been on IB for only a month and programming to their API wasn't a subject I would have explored, neither being a programmer nor interested in programming to anything...

question: was the area around Sooke badly damaged from the fires? thanks